A Quick Overview of the Kindergarten Curriculum
Language Arts
•Write sentences independently
•Comprehend and analyze grade level text
•Knows the names and sounds of all the consonants and vowels
•Understand phonics concepts such as consonant combinations, silent e, blends, and rhymes
•Follow along, reading, and summarizing simple stories with pictures
•Use a variety of different writing genres
•Read sight words
Math
•Count to 100 by 1’s, skip count, and counting backwards
•Understand place value and use it when comparing numbers
•Add and subtract small numbers (within 20)
•Understand the value of money
•Know the units for measurement, time, and weight
•Interpret data
• Critical thinking and word problems
• Compose and Decompose numbers
Social Studies
•Citizenship and community
•Symbols and Traditions
•Compare and Contrast Long Ago vs. Today
• Goods and Services
Science
•Solids, liquids and gases
•Plants, animals and habitats
•Weather and seasons
•Makes hypotheses, records observations and interprets data
A more in depth view at the 1st grade standards can be seen at the link below:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/glcfirstgradecurriculum.pdf
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Daily 5 and CAFE in our room
Daily 5 is a literacy program that focuses on giving students choices for doing meaningful literacy tasks.
Students will be reading to themselves, partner reading, listening to reading, working with words, and
writing to themselves within this program. It helps foster independence with reading and allows the teacher
to be able to pull small differentiated groups over to work on specific reading strategies. Also, allowing students
choices in what they are doing within literacy has proven to have a greater impact on their love of reading.
The CAFE portion of the program is the reading strategies we are teaching the children. The strategies fall
within the categories of Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanded vocabulary (CAFE). Each child will
be taught varying strategies based on the skills they are working on in reading.
Students will be reading to themselves, partner reading, listening to reading, working with words, and
writing to themselves within this program. It helps foster independence with reading and allows the teacher
to be able to pull small differentiated groups over to work on specific reading strategies. Also, allowing students
choices in what they are doing within literacy has proven to have a greater impact on their love of reading.
The CAFE portion of the program is the reading strategies we are teaching the children. The strategies fall
within the categories of Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanded vocabulary (CAFE). Each child will
be taught varying strategies based on the skills they are working on in reading.